Don't get too hung up with calories or with weighing yourself everyday. You need to burn calories and increase you muscle mass (muscle burns calories while you sleep). I receommend my clients weigh themselves just once-a-week, like every Sunday morning.

As for burning those calories, consult with a personal trainer at your local gym, but you need to be on the treadmill, elliptical, or exercise bike at the gym, or outside biking, walking, or jogging for 30 to 60 minutes each day. Additionally, you need to find other ways to burn calories: take the steps and not the elevator or excalator; park farther away at the mall, at work, etc, so you can walk a little further; do more lawn and garden work; etc.

Be sure and drink more water, eat more fruit, and eliminate all the empty calories (candy, pop, chips, fried foods, etc.) Remember, losing weight is a process, as is keeping it off, so look at it as a long term investment in your health!

What you want to be sure of is no matter what the quantity of the calories you are eating are, are they nutritionally dense calories. You could be eating 1600 calories a day of food with no nutrition or as few as 1200 with dense nutrition and get similar results (or actually better results with the more nutritionally dense foods).

Everyone gets hung up on counting calories and monitoring how much exercise they are getting, but no one takes in to consideration that if the food you are eating can't provide your body with the nutrients you need you will be hungry all the time. Our current food supply can not supply the amount of nutrition we need to live and we are constantly bombarded with toxins on a daily basis from our water to the air, it is no wonder over 68% (or more) of our population is obese.

I was one of those 68%. 204 pounds size 16 counting calories & working with a trainer 3 times a week plus working out on my own. I saw some inches come off, but the scale wouldn't budge and pants were still a 16. Finally found some information on how toxins can prevent weight release and how our food is not what it used to be. Now on a Nutritional Cleansing Program and in 7 months I am down 40 pounds in a size 9 and did it all without losing muscle mass (best part-no trainer and I haven't had to exercise like a nut-have been walking and occasional Pilates)

Now a firm believer that you have to get the toxins out of your body & put good nutrition in or you will just yo-yo and feel hungry all the time.

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